Dr. Varsha Suresh

Postdoctoral Researcher
vsuresh(at)lst.uni-saarland.de
Saarland University
Computer Science and Computational Linguistics
Campus C7 2, Raum 3.06
66123 Saarbrücken / Germany
| July 2026 - | postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Vera Demberg’s group affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Informatics working in the project on Multimodal Language Processing |
| May 2024 - June 2026 | postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Vera Demberg’s group affiliated with the DFG-funded SFB-1102 project "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding" working in the project B2 “Cognitive modelling of information density for discourse relations” |
My research largely focuses on building knowledge-augmented language models to improve language understanding tasks. At present, I am also interested in developing multimodal language models. This involves using gestures, body language, and speech features to further enhance language understanding.